When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...

Borgia Their name has become a byword for murder and incest, making the Borgia the most notorious family in Renaissance Italy. They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope ...

In 1507 his friend, Agnolo Doni, ordered a beautiful portrait of the Holy Family ... Michelangelo was no longer a friend to this Medici Pope. In 1530 the artist had cowered beneath the tombs ...

In the early 1500s, as explorers probed the New World, some of the greatest masterpieces of the Renaissance were being ... the 14-year-old Catherine de’ Medici (the niece of Pope Clement VII ...

Portraits reflected the values of Renaissance ... individuals who would become patrons of art during the Renaissance, such as the Medici family. Empowered by new wealth and inspired by the ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, who dominated Florence's political and cultural life during the Renaissance. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family ...

From a small Italian community in 15th Century Florence, the Medici family would rise to ... artistic revolution in Western history – the Renaissance. DaVinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Galileo ...

From a small Italian community in 15thcentury Florence the Medici family would rise to ... revolution in Western history the European Renaissance But the forces of change the Medici helped unleash ...